MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1215, 14 June 1895, Page 17

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Daily Chronicle’s Rome correspondent reports that the Papal Nuncios at Paris, Lisbon and Vienna are to be created Cardinals.

Mt C. IL Bo water, teacher of the Campbelltown School, who was a patient at the Wellington Hospital with a throat affection, has returned to his school duties cured.

Mr Thomas Roots has been appointed inspector of abattoirs and slaughterhouses in Waitotara County.

At a smoke concert at the Ara noho refreshment rooms on Wednesday night Mi Boden, one of the railway employees, was presented by his comrades with a hot water kettle, a cruet stand and a dozen silver spoons in honour of his recent marriage.

The resignation of the commissions held by Lieutenant J. W. P. Halcombe, in the Manchester Rifle Volunteers, and Lieutenant Frank Hill, in the Brunnerton Rifle Volunteers, has been accepted.

Mr S. J. Deck, Stewart Island, has resigned his appointment as a Justice of the Peace.

Dr P. W. Kislop has been appointed Public Vaccinator for the Geraldine district.

Mrs Ormiston Chant, who since her marriage has become an ardent champion of women, says it is her own domestic happiness that makes her so anxious to assist her less fortunate sisters.

The Marlborough Express refers in very complimentary terms to Mr John Holmes, the well-known merchant, who is leaving Blenheim with his wife and family, to reside in Wellington, after 16 years’ residence in Marlborough.

Sir Robert Stout returned to Wellington from the South by the s.s. Rotomahana yesterday week.

The following appointments in the Customs Department are gazetted : —Alfred Collie, cadet, Dunedin; Vincent R. S. Meredith, cadet, Wellington; W. G. D. Grant, cadet, Auckland ; F. C. J. Fantham, cadet, Christchurch.

The portrait of Mr H. D. Bell, M.H.R., has now been added to the list of photos of ex-Mayors in the Council Chamber. Mr Bell in a letter to the Council explained that he had had an oil painting executed by a Canterbury artist, but it was not altogether satisfactory. This was the reason of the delay. Later on he would exchange the photograph for another oil painting which he proposed to have done.

A party, which included some officers attached to the British Legation at Athens, had a thrilling escape from brigands in Larissa. ,J 1

The Christchurch railway employees have presented Mr F. Denby with a handsome teapot, suitably engraved, as a mark of esteem on the eve of his marriage.

Dr Wright, of Waihi, has lost between <£2o and <£3o through rats eating the notes, which it appears had been lodged under the piano, until such time as it was convenient to send them to the bank.

• The officers c f the cargo steamer Tokomaru, which arrived from London last week, are the same as on her last voyage to New Zealand with the exception of Dr Boyd and Mr W. Martin, third refrigerating engineer.

Mr W. G. Brett, who has been in the employ of Messrs Ballinger Brothers for a number of years, has been presented with a silver-plated teapot by the firm and a marble clock from his fellow-employees on the occasion of his recent marriage.

The Premier returned to Wellington from the South by the Penguin on Sunday.

The American. Transportation Commissioners go from Wellington to Woodville and the Hot Lakes, and then go on to Auckland, starting thence for Syuey on the 17th instant. The Chief Commissioner, Major Pang horn, is one of America’s leading railway men, and the other members of the Commission are also men especially chosen on account of their experience and technical knowledge.

A marriage has been arranged betwe( n the Duke of Argyll and Miss McNeill, one of the Maids of Honour to Her Majesty.

Mr Perston, manager of the BankJJof New South Wales at Dunedin, has left on a holiday trip to Australia. During his absence Mr J. C. Campbell, of the inspector’s department, will assume the management of the branch.

The officers and crew of the s.s. Manawatu have presented Mr William Earl with a handsome marble clock and a tea service at Wanganui in honour of his marriage.

At St. John’s Church on Sunday evening, the Rev Jas. Paterson made feeling reference to the death of the Rev. A. (Jirrick, of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland. At the close of the service Mr Maughan Barnett, the organist, played the “ Dead March ” as a mark of respect, and the crowded congregation remained standing until the last notes died away. Mr J. J. Boyle, who for five years 1 as been manager for the Wanganui Herald ,

has been appointed manager for the Marion Mercury.

The London Chronicle’s contribution to the analyses of Thackeray:—“He was a great artist, an exquisite writer of ptosej an incomparable ; liUrhorist; but he was iiot a thiiikei'j still less a &eer. And it is upon the thinkers, the seers, that the future of the notfel depends.”

Mr R. W. Coniyns, who for some years past has filled the sub-editorial chair of the Wanganui Herald, has been appointed editor of the Marton Mercury, and takes up his duties early this week.

Lord Brassey brings out to Melbourne a 24ft yacht for next season’s yachting.

Mrs Amelia MAtson, who is well known as a member of the Parnell Borough Council, is seriously ill. °

The third centenary of the death of the poet lasso was celebrated at Rome on the 25th April.

Miss J. McDonald has been appointed second assistant at Campbell street School, Palmerston North.

The salary of Miss Tutin, matron at the Napier Hospital, has been increased from <£6o to <£Bo per annum.